Silicon Florist links arrangement for September 4, 2026

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

Resect AI Launches Out of Stealth with $25 Million in Funding

Resect Artificial Intelligence (Resect™ AI), the company building the accountability layer for AI, today launched out of stealth with $25 million in funding from private equity investors. The funding will fuel research and development, go-to-market initiatives, and local talent acquisition in the greater Seattle and Portland markets.

The Energy Conversation: Round Three, Wed, Sep 9, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup

On September 9th, we’re bringing together senior energy operators, utility leaders, founders, investors, and experienced builders for an evening of lightning talks and curated introductions. Round three. Same bar, sharper focus.

(2007) Oregon Startups finds 37, asks for more

There’s a great list of Oregon-based Web 2.0 companies posted on Oregon Startups. It’s currently sitting at 37 companies.

CNBC Exclusive: Transcript: Nvidia Founder & CEO Jensen Huang and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue Speak with CNBC’s Becky Quick on “Squawk Box” Today

Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with Nvidia Founder & CEO Jensen Huang and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue who joined CNBC’s “Squawk Box” (M-F, 6AM-9AM ET) today, Thursday, September 3 to discuss Nvidia’s deal to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

Amid postal service uncertainty, Oregon election officials turn to ballot drop boxes – OPB

“Due to uncertainty surrounding mail-in ballots and how they are processed by the U.S. Postal Service, [the Secretary of State’s Office] will be encouraging Oregonians to use ballot boxes to drop off their ballots instead of mailing them, especially closer to Election Day,” reads a funding request lawmakers will consider when they meet in Salem next week for periodic committee hearings.

AI, tools and transformation — Benedict Evans

It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder – now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t a path to change how companies actually work.

Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own

That is what funes provides. It is a durable memory layer for your agents (Claude Code, Codex, pi, and Hermes). It is built from the sessions already on your machine. It works locally and becomes part of your agent’s normal workflow with one command. When you want it to, it can also travel to a Hugging Face dataset you own, private by default.

Startup ARR is less secure than ever, new research shows | TechCrunch

New research from venture capital firm Madrona shows that 74% of 150 enterprise IT professionals it surveyed plan to expand their AI budgets in the next 12 months, and the rest plan to hold spending steady. Yet these same enterprises say that fewer than half of their AI pilots ever make it into full production.

Forward-Deployed Everything – by Euclid Ventures

It seems FDE is becoming something different altogether. It’s a role historically thought of as primarily technical but with strong customer success mandates — implementation, problem solving, keeping the customer happy. Modern FDE is taking on roles traditionally associated with Ops, Sales, even Product. They are increasingly independent. What sort of background do you look for when your FDE essentially has to do a little bit of everything? More and more, they resemble mini-founders. Perhaps they’re due for a title upgrade.

LLMs are becoming commodities

As LLMs releases have accelerated this year, we’ve all become a little inured to the news. It’s still true that model releases that have been hyped for a while — like Llama 3 — generate a decent amount of press. But changes that would’ve felt massive 6 months ago — like GPT-4o — have received relatively little attention for their modeling advancements (controversy notwithstanding).

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